Shipping-bag



. OWENS.

SHIPPING BAG.

APPLICATION FILED .IUNE 8. |918- HENEWED AUG. 1.1919.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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G. H. OWENS.

' SHIPPlhG BAG.

APPLICATION rILEnIuIIE.19Ia. IIEIIEWED AUG. 1.19m.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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i /7 lz/ WITN ESSES ATTOR N EV GEETEUDE H. oWENs, or ELKINs, WEs'I1 VIRGINIA.

sHIrPING-EAG.

i Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

Application filed June 8, 1918, Serial No. 238,957. Renewed August 1, 1919. Seria1 No..314,730.

T 0 all whom it may concern-f Be it known that I. GERTRUDE H. OWENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elkins, in the county of Randolph and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shipping bags,

-and more particularly to a container or bag adapted -to be used for shipping articles by parcel post.

Gne of the main objects of the invention is to provide a bag of the character stated which may be produced at small cost and may be readily secured in closed Vpositiony so as to effectually prevent loss of the contents thereof.

Further objects will appear from the detailed description.

In the drawings Figure l, is a side view of a bag constructed in accordance with my invention in open condition, with the closure flaps extended.

Fig. 2, is a similar view with the bag in closed condition.

Fig. 3, is a transverse vertical section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4, is a view similar to Fig. l, taken from the opposite side of the bag.

Fig. 5, is a view similar to Fig. 2 taken from the opposite side.

Fig. 6, is a fragmentary end view showing the upper corner of the bag as gathered.

Fig. 7, is a fragmentary detail section showing the inner pocket of the inner closure fiap.

The bag is preferably made of some suitable heavy fabric, such as canvas. Thisbag is provided with the end ieces 2 and has its sides l extended to provide closure flaps 3 and 4 which extend a considerable distance beyond the upper edge of the body portion of the bag. Strips 5 and 6 of fabric are 'secured to the outer face of the side of the bag of which flap 3 is a continuation, these strips being so stitched as to provide alined keepers 7 for the reception of securing straps 8 which are secured at their ends 9 to the outer face of the side of the bag, each of these straps being provided adjacent its fixed end with a buckle 10. Flap 3 is provided, at its outer edge, with a strip 11l similar strips 5 and 6 which is also stitched so as to provide keepers 12 for the reception of the securing straps.

Strips 13 and 14 similar to the strips 5 and 6 are secured on the opposite sides of the bag and stitched to provide alined keepers 15 which receive the straps 8, a strip 16 similar to strip 11 being secured at the outer edge of iap 4, and stitched to provide the keepers 17 for the reception of the securing straps. Flap 3 is further provided on its outer'face with an address tag 18 secured thereto, a similar tag 19 -being secured to the outer face of flap 4.

In usingthis device, after the goods have been placed in the body of the bag, flap 3 is turned inwardly and downwardly into the bag so as to extend across the upper end thereof, thus providing a closure member for preventing escape of the contents of the bag, as in Fig. 3. Flap 4 is then turned downwardly at the upper end of the bag inV the opposite direction so as to extend over flap 3, the two laps thus providing a dou` ble closure for the bag. The address to whichr the bag is to be sent, is then written or printed upon the tag 19, after which the straps 8 are passed through the keepers 17 and 7 of the strips 16 and 6, respectively, the free ends of these straps being then secured through the buckles 10. In this manner, the bag may be readily secured closed `so as to effectually prevent all danger of the loss of contents thereof, and may be quickly and easily opened when it reaches its destination.

When it is desired to return the bag, the operation above described is reversed, so that iiap 4 will be positioned inside of the bag, iiap 3 being outside so as to expose the tag 18 upon which the original senders name has been inscribed and to whom it is desired to have the bag returned. The bag may thus be readily sent back and forth between two given addresses by the simple expedient of reversing the flaps so as to expose the name and address of the original sender, or of the original recipient, as desired. To insure tight closure of the flaps, Hap 4 is provided on the inner face of its outer edge with a plurality of snap sockets 21, which are adapted to engage cooperating studs 22 secured to the outer face of the opposite side of the bag, iiap 3 being provided with similar sockets 23 adapted to engage over cooperating studs 24 secured on the other side l a lining in Vthe' shape. of a Silpplemfiil ple" of material 3a secured to the `inner face thereof, this material beingstitehed to the flap at its ends, and its edge adjaeenf'j' the' outer edge of the flap. Thisserves todorovide a pocket 3b which, when the flap isv lfalce thereof Which serves to provide an np? Wardly opening pocket when thelatterfiiap is folded downwardly and yinvva'rdly into' the upperendof' the bag; In Fig; 6 of the dra'wings,-I havel shown the upper portion of the' end pice I2 of the 'bag as' being gathered as at' 2a. This serves to slightly reduce the upper' yendoiv the bag s0 as to provide Ia.

" somewhat tighter closure between the' flaps and the" npper edge of the bag.. 'Ihisgath-v ering may be employed or not as desired, as

W're', tidiniarativly aritiolesirto be shipped. Y 25 Having thns desribed `Iny invention what Icla'i'as nevv-aliddszir to secure by Letters Eatent is comp-rising a bottom, ends gathered at theirfuppker portions, sides oonneotinggthe 30 edges of the ends and each having' a elosu'reY Hap' integra-Hy eoritrng Its-'upper portion and of a length to pass across themouth ofthe condition.; Y

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